Cursor Opened My First Pull Request and I Just Reviewed It
A small habit change made open your first pull request with help usable instead of embarrassing.
I broke open your first pull request with help by overthinking it. What I would do differently: The order that finally worked is boring: tool first, plan second, polish last.
I reach for Cursor for this. writes and edits code across your whole repo with context that sticks.
The step most people rush: review the output in place instead of regenerating from scratch. The boring truth: Cursor gets expensive fast once a project spans many files, so a quick edit beats a fresh prompt almost every time.
I finish by doing the one thing the tool cannot: judge whether this is actually good. Cursor handles the volume; you handle the call.
Then I let Cursor do the draft, but I keep my hands on the result. Cursor writes and edits code across your whole repo with context that sticks, and that is exactly where it earns the time back.
What I would do differently: gets expensive fast once a project spans many files. Watch that before you blame the tool.
The win is not that Cursor is magic. It is that open your first pull request with help stopped being the thing I put off.